Genocide_Darfur+and+Holocaust

__What is genocide?__ __What human rights violation is occurring today?__ __What started the genocide?__
 * __Context:__**
 * Genocide relates to violent crimes committed against a group with intent to destroy the resistance of a group becasue of the race, religion, or nationality.
 * The darfur genocide which began a little over three year ago and is still continuing today.

__Where is it?__
 * In Darfur, Africa the genocide began from people being politicaly and economically limited and Khartoun has refused to control the growing violent arab militia that is corrupting the african villages.
 * Khartoun (Sudan's capital) has not responded to [[image:sudan_map.gif width="311" height="307" align="right"]]
 * The economic needs of the region
 * Their decayed judiciary
 * The lack of political representation

__Who are the victims?__ __Who are the violators?__ This is a picture of the Janjaweed military forces. __Effects of the Genocide on people of Darfur__ __How is the world responding?__ __What is the Oucome of Darfur?__ __What do the human rights groups have to say, are they getting involved?__ __What is the perspective of the violator?__ This video describes the present conditions of the Darfurians during genocide. This shows the persectives of the Darfurian victims. media type="google" key="-8996434746835241683&hl=en"
 * Darfur is located in Western Sudan, covering one-fifth of the country and is home to six million people. Darfur is an Islamic sultanate and is the also the home to over 30 ethnic group all African and Muslim.
 * Non-arab of African tribal groups of Darfur, primarily the Fur, the Massaleit, and the Zaghawas. So far 400,000 people had been killed along with another 2million innocent people fleeing to Sudan and to refugee camps in Chad.
 * the Janjaweed, which are the Sudanese governement-backed militia, along with the Sudanese armed forces. They are responsible for the buring and destruction of hundreds of rural villages, killing of tens of thousands of people, rape, and asault of thousands of women and girls.
 * Thousands of villages destroyed
 * Sudanese escape to neighboring countries of chad, otherwise they are trapped
 * Thousands dies each month from inadequate food, health care, and shelter
 * U.S : President Bush will impose sanctions (such as no fly zone) over Darfur, freezing assets on important political leaders in Khartoum.
 * Khartoum: It is allowing UN leaders to send peace keepers to help the african union troops.
 * China: they are cooperating with the U.S by encourageing Khartoum to allow peace keeperes in Sudan.
 * Continuation of conflict for years to come as the result of destruction and deaths. An entire way of life will change because of the deaths of men and boys. Farming will be difficult since it is usually male dominated. Children will not have learned the skills to survive, especially the agriculture. Education will suffer resulting in lack of jobs. People will remain in poverty and disease and starvation will always be present.
 * The U.N Human Rights council agreed to set up a group of independent experts to work with the Sudanese government and the African Union to monitor the situation in Darfur
 * Amnesty International accused China and Russia of supplying weapons and equipment to Khartoum.
 * An American journalist interviewed Janjaweed Musa Hilal who feels that he is not offended by being known as a war criminal and that he was only following orders to help the government to deal with a rebellion. During war, he felt that it is normal for innocent people to be hurt and killed.

__What human rights violation occured in the past?__ __Where was it?__ __How did it begin?__ __Who were the victims?__ __Who were the violators?__ __Effects of the Holocaust__ __How did the world respond back then?__ __What was the outcome of the Holocaust?__ __What was the perspective of the violator?__
 * The Holocaust which began in 1933 and ended in 1945. Initially, it began when the N[[image:greman_map.jpg width="387" height="288" align="right"]]azi's attacked the Jewish community in 1938.
 * Europe
 * People in Germany and Europe still believed the old lies about the Jews such as being thieves and murderers of Christian babies as well as being accused of killing Jesus. The Nazis felt that all non-Aryan people, practically the Jews were inferior. This lead to the Holocaust which was the mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior to the Nazis in Germany.
 * 6 million European Jews were killed. In addition, 5 to 6 million gypsies, handicap people, communists, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, labor unionists and prisoners of war. Elie Weisel, survivor and writer of the Holocaust summed it up when he wrote, “Not all of the victims were Jewish but all of the Jews were victims.” In total, 12 million people were killed.
 * Kristallnacht or night of broken glass was an attack on the homes, businesses and[[image:holocaust_1.jpg width="305" height="288" align="right"]] synagogues and murder od many Jewa.
 * Nazis in Germany under the leadership of Adolph Hitler attempted to exterminate Jews were ever they can be found. At first, Hitler wanted the Jews to flee to other countries. Then, he placed them in deignated areas which became known as ghettos. These areas were crowded and sealed with barbed wire and stone walls. The nazis wanted all the Jews insede to die or starve from disease.
 * After, Hitler created a plan that would be faster for the Jews to die called the "Final Soloution".
 * This is where the genocide began. Groups of innocent people were shot into pits, or put in concentration camps where they lived under terrible conditions. The Nazis even built gas chambers that killed up to 6,000 in one day.
 * Similarly to the destruction and killing of people in Darfur, along with their villages, the Nazis set up concentration camps which held the political prisoners in one place. The people became slave labors where they were beaten and starved eventually leading to their deaths.
 * Most of the world’s free nations did little or nothing to aid the Jews in Europe as they were being destroyed even though they knew what was happening. Allied leaders ignored requests to bomb the Nazi camps or rails leading to them. Although the United State claimed they were unaware of the killings until after. If countries would have helped, would have been able to save many lives. This is unlike Darfur where countries are more responsive to aid the victims in a timely manner.
 * Afterwards, countries such as Denmark contributed money, food shelter, and boats to help the Jews ferry across to Sweden, Finland refused to deport its Jews and Italy hid many Jews.
 * Unlike the people in Darfur today, many survivors of the Holocaust went on to build new life with new families, new homes and careers. However, like Darfur, many will always remember the traumatic events for the rest of their l[[image:holocaust1.gif width="283" height="197" align="right"]]ives.
 * Today, there are still modern day Nazis who spread Hitler’s lies about Jews and other minority groups. Similarly to Darfur, where leaders believe that killing is part of being at war, these members today still carry out vicious hate crimes where prejudice leads to violence and murder.

__Links to informative websites on the Holocaust and Darfur:__ http://www.darfurgenocide.org/darfur.php http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060501&s=reeves050506 http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/index.html http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/darfur.htm http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22375&Cr=sudan&Cr1

__Links for more pictures on the Holocaust and Darfur__: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22083&Cr=rights&Cr1=council http://saindarfur.org/darfur_photos/thumbnails.php?album=7 http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/resource/gallery/gallery.htm